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by nocman 2y ago
Just pulled up "Don't Stop Believing" as a test. Even on crappy old junk headphones, still an awesome song that I don't think I'll ever get tired of. Granted, I don't generally let services make a playlist for
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by nocman 3y ago
I would venture to guess that is not true in the US overall. I expect more people have no filter on their tap water than those who have one.
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by nocman 3y ago
> I never wrote software for OS/2, aside some playing with the C compiler whose name I can't recall now... Was it Watcom C++? I may actually still have a CD with that on it somewhere.
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by nocman 3y ago
> If I always guess incorrectly, then I'm correctly guessing the incorrect choice. No, you aren't, because you aren't saying that it is the incorrect choice. You are saying it is the correct one.
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by nocman 3y ago
> Consider: the Library of Congress has (literally) a copy of every work that has ever been in print in the U.S. This is not true. The Library of Congress has a copy of works that have been registered for copyright with them. I am sure
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by nocman 3y ago
On a computer I can easily rewrite the same phrase 10 times, reorganize a sentence for the best sounding flow, move or remove whole paragraphs multiple times, until I am satisfied I have said what I wanted to say in the best way I know how.
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by nocman 3y ago
Yeah, writing on a word processor is a million times better (at least it is for me). Don't get me wrong, I do think it's bad that writing things by hand is becoming more and more rare all the time. In particular, handwritten lett
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by nocman 3y ago
Count Rugen sees no problem with this.
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by nocman 3y ago
I would not say it is meaningless. I have found this site helpful in the past, but I have decades of experience with multiple programming languages. The site is useful for reminding you of some basic differences, and I think that's pre
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by nocman 3y ago
For many people, it's because the choices for an IDE are all dog slow, and configuring a few plugins for their editor of choice provides a close-enough experience to strike the balance they are looking for. So, no, an IDE is not a be
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by nocman 3y ago
Been busy and didn't see the response... So... you meant 'ossified' in a good way?? If so, I guess I would have used a different term that didn't have such a negative connotation.
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by nocman 3y ago
Might be worth changing the title to "no-GIL". My first thought was "What is nogil CPython?" - thinking it was some specialized fork of CPython. I guess you could say that is technically true. I was previously aware o
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by nocman 3y ago
I'm genuinely curious. What about the language do you feel is "ossified"? I am interpreting that as being a negative description. Stability is extremely valuable. A lack of change to the core language over extended periods
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by nocman 3y ago
That might be true if you already don't like writing Perl, but I have many years of experience writing system administration scripts in Perl, and I'd pick it for that task over Python any day. I can understand why someone who pref
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by nocman 3y ago
> Native too, not like cygwin bash. Are you suggesting that cygwin's bash is not "native"? It isn't installed by default, obviously, but it is a native Windows executable, as are the other command-line tools generall
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by nocman 4y ago
While I can see why you might take that as "talking down the youngest generation of adults", I don't think that is necessarily the author's intention. All three of those examples are things that many people from Gen Z
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by nocman 4y ago
I would be interested to hear a concrete list of things SQL Server is "so much better than Postgres" in. It's difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions otherwise.
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by nocman 4y ago
Which is a very long way of saying -- "no".
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by nocman 4y ago
> actually I'm seeing the AI write much better comments (i.e. some) than most devs (none). Some comments are far worse than no comments at all. I would agree that even semi-decent comments are far better than nothing. However, &
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by nocman 4y ago
Yes, as I recall, when Rackspace ruined Slicehost, a lot of people moved to Linode. I am guessing the same thing is likely to happen to Linode now. I'm just not sure if there is as clear a choice for a new company as it seemed to be
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by nocman 4y ago
I think you may have missed the 'jk' (just kidding) at the end of my post.
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by nocman 4y ago
I think that's a lot of the point here. They won't be starting with that customer base if most of that customer base leaves because of these changes (which I think a significant portion of them may).
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by nocman 4y ago
I thought about doing some work on Clojure itself, but, alas, my last name isn't Miller. :-( jk
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by nocman 4y ago
Rich Hickey said it best: "ORM's provide 'OH MY GOD' complexity" (from his "Simple Made Easy" talk - I might have the quote only 90% correct, but it's pretty darn close to that).
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by nocman 4y ago
The popularity of a single development tool in a particular category does not make all other tools in the same (or a similar) category non-viable.
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by nocman 4y ago
Webmail is a nice option to have if you want it. Email should continue to be a separate set of protocols targeted at that one application. I'd much rather see webmail disappear as an option than standard email servers and clients.
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by nocman 4y ago
Seems odd to me to describe using a Chromium-based toolkit as a way to break the Chrome monoculture. Yeah, I know it is open source, but the ties are still obvious.
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by nocman 4y ago
I second that recommendation. If you have many years of experience with vim, evil-mode allows you to keep a lot of that and add good stuff from emacs.
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by nocman 4y ago
There was a time when I had an equal revulsion toward languages with a Lisp-like syntax. However, dissatisfaction with the limitations of most other programming languages, and the influence of a bunch of very smart and effective developer
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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, I wasn't really thinking of performance. I was thinking of the dislike I have for working with Java. Past experiences with "enterprizey" Java is the worst. AbstractWidgetFactoryBuilderLoaderMaker, etc.

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